Conflict Managed

This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Dr. Robert Carter. Together we explore:
The importance of presence, effort, and passion
The good of ‘small talk’
The more you know about your teammates reduces conflict
The digital divide
Creating team environments where you disagree well
Holistic solutions for addressing conflict
Growth instead of scarcity mindset
Investing in and valuing others
Rob’s new book, The Convenience Trap: How to Regain Control In a World of Instant Gratification
Conflict Managed is available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube @ 3pconflictrestoration.
Dr. Robert Carter III is a nationally recognized expert in human performance, integrative physiology, neuroscience, and public health who has dedicated his career to helping individuals and organizations achieve sustainable peak performance. As a U.S. Army veteran, Harvard-trained scientist, author, researcher, and speaker, he brings a unique combination of scientific rigor, leadership experience, and practical application to the fields of brain optimization, resilience, and organizational excellence.Throughout his distinguished career, Dr. Carter has led and supported multiple U.S. Army medical and surgical research programs, specializing in pre-hospital combat casualty care, stress physiology, human resilience, and battlefield performance. His work has focused on understanding how the brain and body respond to high-pressure environments and translating those insights into actionable strategies that improve performance, decision-making, and overall well-being.Dr. Carter is the co-author of the bestselling book The Morning Mind, where he shares neuroscience-based techniques designed to reduce fear-driven thinking, improve sleep quality, enhance cognitive function, and help people perform at their highest level. His approach integrates cutting-edge research with practical tools that can be applied in everyday life, leadership, healthcare, athletics, and business.
A two-time black belt and dedicated Taekwondo practitioner, Dr. Carter embodies the principles of discipline, resilience, and continuous growth. He is passionate about empowering leaders, teams, and organizations to unlock their full potential by applying evidence-based strategies that enhance health, performance, and long-term success.
His mission is simple: to help people think better, perform stronger, and lead with greater purpose through the powerful integration of science, resilience, and human potential.
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.
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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Dr. Robyn Short. Together we explore:
What is the goal at work?
Building resilience to navigate conflict well
Why navigating conflict is hard
Intentionally designing workplace systems
What do you have authority to change, and what can you advocate for?
Understanding the system you work within
Patriarchal systems organize around power over and dominance, while matriarchal systems organize around power with and collaboration
Robyn’s new book, The Matriarch Effect: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Organizations, and the New Logic of Power
Conflict Managed is available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube @ 3pconflictrestoration
Dr. Robyn Short is the founder of Workplace Peace Institute, an organizational systems design and research firm on a mission to create highly engaged workplaces where dignity is consistently honored and experienced. A mediator, peacebuilding trainer, and systems design consultant, she helps companies and nonprofits uncover the root causes of their conflicts and build cultures where dignity is embedded in how the work gets done. She is a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and a graduate of Margaret Wheatley's Warriors for the Human Spirit. The author of five books and founder of GoodMedia Press, Dr. Short holds a Doctor of Liberal Studies in peace studies and systems design and has taught in graduate conflict resolution programs at Southern Methodist University, Bay Path University, and Texas A&M University at Commerce.
 
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.
 
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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Bernardo Ruiz. Together we explore:
Courage to try something new
Moving past the “bootstraps” myth to see and help each other
Working to make money
The community of work
Owning our part in workplace culture
Recognizing past harm while moving forward
Conflict as a gift
Giving people the resources they need to succeed
Conflict Managed is available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube @ 3pconflictrestoration.
Bernardo Ruiz has spent more than twenty-five years helping organizations change what they believe about themselves. As CEO of Bridging International Consulting Collective, he works with foundations, companies, and governments across fifteen countries on questions of race, culture, and leadership. He is also a Curandero, a Medicine Man in the Mexica tradition, who cares for his community through sacred plant medicine, ancestral recovery ceremonies, and limpias. His work joins two things most institutions keep apart: rigorous organizational science and ancestral wisdom. He is at work on a trilogy that carries the same conviction — that the world heals when these two ways of knowing stop competing and start speaking to each other.
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.
 
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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Kathy Coffey Solberg. Together we explore:
Incremental action and rebuilding trust
Channeling the energy of leaders who love change
Preparing for difficult conversations
Why it’s always personal to the person
The role of preparation in creating and implementing systems
“What do we agree on?” as a path toward fruitful progress
Finding neutral ground instead of common ground
Keeping conversations going instead of shutting people down
The challenges and opportunities of middle management
Kathy’s new book, Reweaving What Matters: Practical Tools for Workplace Transformation
Conflict Managed is available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube @ 3pconflictrestoration.
Kathy Coffey Solberg is an author, community weaver, experienced consultant, executive director, and systems thinker with a demonstrated history of empowering others through professional and personal leadership development, civic engagement, and a deeper understanding of how to navigate communication and workplace systems to create greater efficiency. She is the author of Reweaving What Matters: Practical Tools for Workplace Transformation.
Her expertise spans leadership, philanthropy, human systems design, collective governance, and organizational development. Kathy specializes in guiding individuals to harness their strengths and supporting organizations in fostering collaboration, adaptability, and impact.
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.
 
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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Kristi Ellingsworth. Together we explore:
Engaging and empathizing with those who don’t get what they want
Creativity and generosity
The willingness to be uncomfortable with people in conflict
Sharing your calm with others
Leadership energy
Curious vs judgmental mindset
Taking pauses throughout the day to self-regulate
Being generous with compliments
Conflict Managed is available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube @3pconflictrestoration
Kristi Ellingsworth is the Director of Hospitality at Dartcor Enterprises. Her work centers on employee experience, leadership development, emotional intelligence, and creating workplace cultures where people feel genuinely supported and connected. What makes her perspective especially unique is that she didn't come up through traditional HR—she spent more than a decade in fine dining, including nearly seven years as Maitre d' at Nobu Hospitality, where she managed VIP guest relationships, trained front-of-house teams, and navigated the constant demands of high-pressure hospitality environments.
Today, she brings those same hospitality principles into the workplace, helping leaders think differently about communication, conflict, trust, and psychological safety. She also previously hosted her own wellness podcast, The Alternative Podcast with Kristi Ellingsworth, where she interviewed experts on mindset, mindfulness, and personal growth.
Kristi’s philosophy is simple: the employee experience is the first customer experience.
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.
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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Maria Colacurcio. Together we explore:
Empathy for the messenger
The power in having a humanities based education
The specific results of being curious
Clarity in pay transparency and the ability to explain pay decisions
Cognitive surrender and AI
‘Running at’ conflict
Giving clear feedback
What does leadership cost you?
Change agility vs change management
Conflict Managed is available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube @3pconflictrestoration
Maria Colacurcio is reshaping how enterprises govern their largest and most consequential investment: how they pay their people. As CEO of Syndio, she leads the company that defined the market for pay equity software and is now pioneering Decision Intelligence for Pay. Under her leadership, Syndio partners with global brands including Walmart, Microsoft, and Salesforce to make every pay decision compliant, optimized, and aligned with business strategy. Maria previously co-founded Smartsheet, which went public in 2018. She has built her career at the intersection of technology, policy, and purpose-driven leadership, earning recognition as one of the 100 most exceptional entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs Builders + Innovators Summit.
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.
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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Amie Fox. Together we explore:
The business case for disability inclusion
Work systems: design with human nature and user experience in mind
What do I need people to know, feel, and do after this interaction?
Moving beyond compliance to see, value & recognize others
Progress, not perfection
Resistance as fear
Feedback culture
Conflict Managed is available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube @ 3pconflictrestoration.
Amie Fox is a managing director, trainer and keynote speaker who helps founders, HR and operations leaders in growing organizations build practical people systems that improve employee engagement, manager confidence and business performance.She moved into this work after a portfolio career across communications, training, fundraising, corporate responsibility and operations exposed her to how differently people experience workplaces. A key turning point was struggling to find early employment as a visually impaired woman, which shaped her understanding of hidden barriers, workplace design and the importance of systems that help people perform at their best.Her credibility is grounded in recent and current roles: she set up A Fox Consulting, serves as a non-executive director at Vision Ireland, and has held senior CSR and operations roles at organizations including SCOPE Eyecare & Healthcare. Through her consulting, communications, fundraising and inclusion work, she has contributed to projects with organizations such as McDonald’s, Telefonica, Deloitte, Novartis, Abbott, Newstalk and John Sisk & Sons.
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.
 
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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Lynnae Brown. Together we explore:
What kind of work and workplace is right for you?
Orienting how to think about work
Clear parameters in your work
Developing standards that everyone knows
What work can and can’t do for you
Do you have to change your job to change how you feel at work?
Assuming good intentions
Conflict Managed is available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube @3pconflictrestoration.
Lynnae Brown is a work navigation strategist. She thinks we need another way to approach work. Something stealthier and sturdier - an approach where we navigate the workplace as it actually is, develop our own way of being inside it, and still do the job well.
Lynnae has spent more than a decade in workforce development, thinking hard about what people needed in order to take care of themselves while working in a system that wouldn't. Most of that work was with people in mental health recovery - helping them move from service users to service providers, preparing them for workplaces that were often as hard to navigate as the conditions they'd survived.
With enough distance, she finally saw the shape of the approach she’d been developing all along and developed three starting points for people who want to begin approaching work differently: 6 Questions offers prompts that help you examine what you actually bring to work, 6 Actions are ideas you can put into action now to create space between you and your job, and BOOT — Brown’s Organizational Orientation Theory approaches workplace disorientation as a structural condition rather than a personal failing.
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.
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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Vladimir Baranov. Together we explore:
How do you uncover what you want?
Gathering context
Setting expectations
Developing leadership skills
Role modeling
Annoyance vs. pain at work
Exposure to a variety of experiences
Conflict Managed is available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube @ 3pconflictrestoration
 
Vladimir Baranov is an Executive Coach for Founders and Technical Leaders with a track record of coaching and mentoring at U.S. and U.K. incubators and accelerators, specializing in launching, developing, and sustaining startups through a zero-to-one approach that transforms ideas into tangible businesses — including bridging the frequently misaligned worlds of business and technology. A serial entrepreneur, he founded three companies with successful exits in fintech and spacetech, and his experience across founder, CTO, COO, and CISO roles has given him a comprehensive perspective on scaling businesses through various funding stages and building optimal data and technology services. Vladimir holds MBAs from Columbia and London Business Schools and dual degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Stony Brook University, where his studies spanned software development and robotics. He remains deeply passionate about communication strategies, organizational and social behavior, and lifelong learning.  
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.
 
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This week on Conflict Managed we welcome Kenyada Meadows. Together we explore:
How to find community
What do you want/need from work? What do your colleagues want/need?
Building a reflective relationship with yourself
Distraction
His new book, The New Alpha: Be Three Times the Leader Through Balance, Not Dominance
Not catering to your emotions
 
Conflict Managed is available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube @ 3pconflictrestoration
 
Kenyada Meadows is a financial services executive, governance expert, and board member with 25+ years leading audit, risk, and compliance across global Wall Street institutions. A Harvard Business School alumnus, Author, and Master Certified Executive Coach (MPCC) with CPA, CIA, and CFE credentials, he helps working fathers and executives succeed without sacrificing their humanity by moving leaders beyond dominance through values-driven governance and emotional integrity.
Kenyada mastered the traditional playbook—outworking, outlasting, outperforming—in environments where pressure proved value and self-sacrifice seemed mandatory. The turning point came when senior leadership responsibilities, fatherhood, and caring for an ailing parent collided, forcing him to confront corporate conditioning's hidden costs and challenge the belief that well-being could survive on the margins.
Through this journey, Kenyada developed a unique approach helping high-performing men lead with wholeness through the Three Pillars of the New Alpha (Home, Work, Self). This framework redefines strength through balance, not control, empowering leaders to lead with purpose, presence, and emotional clarity by recognizing vulnerability as true strength.
 
Conflict Managed is produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services and hosted by Merry Brown.
 
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